New York · Private foundation
Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $85k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $18,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $85k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $70k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $81k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $93k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $79k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $78k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $76k | 68% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $47k | 82% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Dunstan's Episcopal Church | $60,704 | 4 | n/a |
| Bread for the City Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels Inc | $37,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Trinity College | $37,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $34,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Hips | $32,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Patriot Paws Service Dogs | $29,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Food & Friends Inc | $24,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Share Incorporated | $17,500 | 6 | 1% |
| American Music Therapy Association | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($154k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation
- How much does Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation give?
- Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $84,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (25%), Education (18%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Dunstan's Episcopal Church ($61k), Bread for the City Inc ($50k), Meals on Wheels Inc ($38k).
- Does Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Verizon Foundation, The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation.
- Where is Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation based?
- Lawrence B Taishoff Foundation is based in NY.
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